Parrish Art Museum Nabs New Director, First Hilma af Klint Show in Australia, and More: Morning Links from February 4, 2021
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Hilma af Klint
The 10 Best Art Documentaries of 2020
These films offered solace for many while people were confined to their homes.
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Hilma af Klint Pioneered Abstractions and Spoke with Spirits. Here’s Why She’s Important.
See a guide to the Swedish modernist's life and art.
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Why Did Hilma af Klint Elude Art History for So Long? A New Documentary Considers the Mystic’s Mysteries
Beyond the Visible surveys past and present considerations of an artist worthy of attention.
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In Agnes Pelton’s Ebullient Paintings, the Cosmos Is Flush with Gentle Energy
In 1932, at age fifty, Agnes Pelton, moved from Long Island to the desert town of Cathedral City, California, and, shortly thereafter, witnessed a great storm. She captured her impressions in…
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Around New York: On Some of the Season’s Best Shows, From Hilma af Klint to Mary Beth Edelson
Plus, Mimi Gross, Alice Neel, Mira Schor, Vivian Suter, Jasper Johns, Ben Morgan-Cleveland, and many more.
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Guggenheim’s Hilma af Klint Survey Is Most Popular Show in Its History
Over 600,000 people have visited the exhibition, which ends April 23.
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Muses: Songwriter Steve Gunn on Robert Irwin, Hilma af Klint, and ‘The Lightning Field’
The musician has a new album out now on Matador Records.
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Editor’s Letter
In "The Creative Act," a short essay from 1957, Marcel Duchamp argues that artmaking is never truly a solitary activity.
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The Pleasures of Refraction
At the very end of the Guggenheim Museum's revelatory exhibition of work by Hilma af Klint is a single stretch of the museum's spiraling ramp devoted to luminous and perplexing new paintings by R.H…
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